Why cellphone is like a Tamagotchi nowadays?
*BlimBlom* please notice me!

At one random time a lady voice said in my pocket: "GPS signal lost."
What is going on, my dear Tamagotchi?

Ad blockers are piracy and if you use one you should go to jail

Since 2020, according to American NIST, an inch is exactly 25.4 mm. No foot shenanigans anymore. Thus, in the US of A and a lot of other countries, an inch is just a weird metric unit.

Imperial system is a lie.

I have to rebuild a full application till the end of the year without ever using the original application and without a technical document while keeping the users happy.

2 people team compared to a multinational team over 10 years :')

How are you supposed to do that!?

Correction: oligarchy, not "democracy".

Unless you mean it in the classical sense of the word, where "people" is not as broad a term, given how **citinzenship** was an exclusive status in the ancient city-states that developed these concepts.

However, even in that case -- which I find highly unlikely -- I'd argue that oligarchy is equivalently if not moreso applicable as an accurate description of said form of government.

Every few years, you (probably) go and vote _not_ for whomever better represents your interests, but rather for whomever seems to be the lesser evil: the 'best of the worst', if you will, out of a series of horrible candidates you absolutely do not trust.

That is undemocratic; no semblance of power is vested in us, much less "supreme power", and we cannot speak of anything even remotely alike to popular sovereignty within this context. By which I mean, we have overlords rather than "representatives".

And this, altogether, does beg the question: why do we parrot these terms as if they were ever a faithful description of anything? Have we no capacity for language, perhaps?

Appropriately enough, it's bollocks all the way down.

Been looking into my health issues. Seems I might have liver toxicity or some shit caused by a medication I take. Was looking at what liver toxicity would appear as in symptoms. I think I have a few of those. So I will be getting with my doctor about this. On one page it said acetaminophen could cause liver toxicity as well. I don't take that, but the: "When to see a doctor" had interesting criteria:

- Loss of appetite.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Pain in the upper stomach area.
- Coma.

The first 3 seem reasonable, but the "Coma" symptom is sketchy AF. Like who is going to see their doctor about a coma? lol /s (in case it isn't obvious, for the autists)

Hanlon's razor.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Take your vertical slice architecture and shove it up your ass

Week: 101 (Year 2)

What are the plans for the weekend?

Question: I don't have any questions this weekend. Do you have any questions for me?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19035709

TL;DR: I'm reading papers and doing computer science like I could never afford to in college.

I am beginning my scientific arc.

Over the past few days, I have been working on implementing my own Evolutionary Algorithms

I've been doing a combination of "experimentation" and (probably less than I should,) actual research.

My Mark 1 was just a proof of concept that set up the data structures correctly, Mark 2 generalized the data structures and actually implemented some natural selection, but this was really just made up by me so I'm only getting mediocre results.

Next step: I have two papers lined up to read on EAs. Mark 3 might not implement them exactly, but I hope to beat the performance of Mark 2.

I'm encouraged by the fact that these research papers have TONS of different things they tried, and I'm really only on my first prototype (since Mark 1 didn't have any selection implementation, only randomness)

Follow along if interested:

https://github.com/AlgoRythm-Dylan/...

Thank you, appstore, for showing me an ad for the app that I was searching for, right above the search result for this app! 🤦‍♂️

#include <stdio.h>

void getElement(int arr[], int size, int index) {
if(index >= 0 && index < size) {
printf("%d", arr[index]);
} else {
printf("Index out of bounds");
}
}

int main() {
int size, index;

// Read the size of the array
scanf("%d", &size);

int arr[size];

// Read array elements
for(int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
scanf("%d", &arr[i]);
}

// Read the index to access
scanf("%d", &index);

getElement(arr, size, index);

return 0;
}

Sick and tired of this stupid country. I came to this city because the newspapers keep saying it had a huge drug problem. I CANNOT FIND DRUGS ANYWHERE

Fucking liars

day #13 of being married to ClaudeCode, we are officially on an OpenMarriage, I loved using OpenCode with Kimi K2, and Warp is actually Good

are you ready for new era?

PSA: You setting up a RAG + System Prompt + Agent + Intents does NOT mean you “trained an AI”.

God it's too warm again because of all the cartards and planetakers.

ChatGPT 4 is stupid.
ChatGPT 5 is stupid.
No difference.

ai apocalypse my ass

Never really had issues with Java, but this is so funny to me.

To date, the high score for toilet seat slams is 5 in one day. Not sure we will ever beat that score.

!dev Job hunting: where you can get burnout before even getting a job.

The next pirate bay is just "the internet without stupid age verification", I'm calling it now.

Today’s kiki dream was so pleasant that it still lingers inside my rib cage and heals my heart with its warmth
Maybe this is what you get when you quit your job

I have spent most of my career in dev teams no larger than 7 people. I am soon joining a company where dev teams are around 50. Any tips or unspoken rules?

Fun fact: UAE imports sand from Australia.

Me and my wife always dreamed of living in america.

Europe in a dictatorship, you can't even shoot your dog

It's quite a lot easier not being an alcoholic when you aren't stressed the fuck out

Week: 100 (Year 2 )

100th week. 200th rant

I am so happy. This is a special week for me. Not only did my company lose the client I have been working on, but also the company is pushing me to do the night shift without any benefits for a new project.

How is your weekend going?

Question: How do you politely tell HR that you don't want to be a slave and work the night shift without saying it directly?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/18967856

Didn't realize how disgusting Facebook was. If a girl removes her profile picture they have determined this person hates their look. So they start spamming them with makeup ads. If a person is suicidal they start spamming them with other ads they think are relevant.

This guy brought this to my attention:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

He seems to be in the trenches against, or reporting on right to repair. Not quite sure. I think he makes some interesting observations about how tech is weaponized against consumers.

tmux I love you